tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post3091926816260571118..comments2024-03-27T14:50:47.345-04:00Comments on <center>Sandwalk</center>: Citing BlogsLarry Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-87132360224182772802008-10-30T10:37:00.000-04:002008-10-30T10:37:00.000-04:00Unless the students are submitting work that's dir...Unless the students are submitting work that's directly related to taking information off of the internet, I usually give them the advice that my honours thesis advisors gave me: If the internet source is credible, it will cite primary literature, and you should cite that.<BR/><BR/>Obviously there are times when you'll want to pull a specific quotation off of a blog, or a figure that's specific to the web, but the internet also gives us the ability to edit our writing after the fact. As a rather specific example, a Japanese newspaper recently <A HREF="http://www.gamecyte.com/japanese-newspaper-retracts-mgs4-on-360-quote" REL="nofollow">changed the text</A> of a previously published article, in order to remove a quotation. So all of a sudden, references to this particular comment led to an article where no such comment was to be found.<BR/><BR/>Obviously we need a proper way to cite blogs, but it would probably be a good idea to have a way to reference back to the original source via some archive.Carlohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00153076425887492166noreply@blogger.com